Marc Maron plays a great actor in “In Memoriam,” but the comedian and podcaster worried he didn’t have the chops to pull off a key moment in the new movie.
“I had to cry, but I didn’t know if I had that kind of control as an actor — I didn’t know if I can do that,” Maron remembers. “I really freaked out. I went back to my trailer and was full on DiCaprio in ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.’ I’m like, ‘I suck. What am I doing here?'”
It fell to Sharon Stone, Maron’s scene partner, to help him find his way through the emotional gauntlet. When Maron came back to set, Stone grabbed his hand and encouraged him to draw on the grief he feels over the 2020 death of his girlfriend, filmmaker Lynn Shelton.
“Why don’t you do the scene to Lynn, and I’ll make sure she’s here,” Stone told Maron.
It worked.
